Help lead the fight to end hunger on the Oregon Food Bank Board!

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) seeks passionate, dedicated community members to join our Board of Directors. By state law, the Board of Directors is responsible for governing Oregon Food Bank, which broadly means ensuring that our organization pursues its mission, is financially sound, and is managed appropriately by our President.

Priorities for Board Candidates

It is no secret that our communities face a historic, ongoing hunger crisis in an environment with continued economic uncertainty and disruptions — and we expect these impacts to continue.

The OFB Board of Directors is a team of dedicated and skilled community volunteers passionate about addressing hunger in Oregon and Southwest Washington. We strive to create a Board that centers our equity constituencies – communities of color, immigrant and refugee communities, transgender and gender non-conforming communities, and single mothers and caregivers. We also strive to create a Board with the skills, capabilities and experience to provide excellent oversight of the organization, our mission, and our commitment to equity and racial justice.

Our recruitment efforts in this time of layered challenges reflects the strategic need for highly effective Board members. Candidates who have one or more of the following skills will receive the highest priority for consideration as an OFB Board member.

Skills:

• A person with professional experience in communications.

• A person who has expertise in public accounting and/or taxes, such as a CPA.

• A person with significant professional experience that would allow them to quickly assume governance duties.

How to Apply

To apply, please complete our candidate interest form. We generally recruit on a rolling basis, engage with potential candidates throughout the year, and add new board members at the beginning of each calendar year. Board members typically begin by serving a two-year term and may serve up to the term-limit of eight years.

If you have questions please contact board@oregonfoodbank.org and a member of our recruitment committee will respond.

Please submit applications by June 30, 2025 for consideration for service in 2026.

Additional Information

Our Board has adopted an Equity Lens that guides us in fulfilling Oregon Food Bank's mission and serves as a framework for identifying new Board candidates. Everyone deserves nourishing food, yet many people in our communities go to bed hungry. That’s why Oregon Food Bank connects people to food while also working to change what keeps people in poverty. We know we can’t end hunger with food alone. We envision a community where each person can participate, prosper and have access to food that is both nourishing and in keeping with their culture. We recognize that systemic injustices exist – such as racism, classism, and sexism – and that these create and perpetuate conditions that sustain poverty and hunger.

Our purpose is to lift marginalized communities across urban, suburban and rural environments in ways that value who we are and the totality of our lived experiences. We are committed to the leadership of these communities in our day-to-day work, and to responding where bias and inequities appear. We will confront systemic oppression and poverty by developing solutions to hunger that are community-driven, honor a diversity of needs, and value everyone.

Additional details on duties and responsibilities are available in our Board Member Job Description.